Digby, officially named the Municipality of the District of Digby, is a
district municipality
A district municipality is a designation for a class of municipalities found in several locations, including Canada, Lithuania, and South Africa.
Canada British Columbia
Under provincial law, municipalities in British Columbia are to be desig ...
in
Digby County
Digby County is a county in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
History
It was named after the Township of Digby; this was named in honour of Rear Admiral Robert Digby, who dispatched HMS ''Atalanta'' to convey Loyalists from New York City in ...
,
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland".
Most of the population are native Eng ...
, Canada.
Statistics Canada
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classifies the district municipality as a
municipal district
A municipal district is an administrative entity comprising a clearly-defined territory and its population. It can refer to a city, a town, a village, a small grouping of them, or a rural area.
Brazil
In Brazil, municipal districts are, in genera ...
.
The district municipality forms the eastern part of Digby County. It is one of three municipal units in the county, the other two being the
Town of Digby and the
Municipality of the District of Clare
Clare, officially named the Municipality of the District of Clare, is a List of district municipalities in Nova Scotia#District municipality, district municipality in western Nova Scotia, Canada. Statistics Canada classifies the district municip ...
.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, the Municipality of the District of Digby had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Communities
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Bear River
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Gilberts Cove
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Little River, Digby, Nova Scotia
Little River is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in The Municipality of the District of Digby. in Digby County on Digby Neck. Little River is a small fishing
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fis ...
*Marshalltown
*Jordantown
*Conway
*Acaciaville
*Hillgrove
*North Range
*Brighton
*Barton
*Weymouth
*Sissiboo Falls
*Weymouth Falls
*Doucetteville
*Ashmore
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Morganville
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Plympton
Plympton is a suburb of the city of Plymouth in Devon, England. It is in origin an ancient stannary town. It was an important trading centre for locally mined tin, and a seaport before the River Plym silted up and trade moved down river to Plym ...
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Smith's Cove
*Culloden
*Bayview
*Rossway
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Sandy Cove
*Centreville
*Mink Cove
*Tiddville
*Whale Cove
*East Ferry
*Tiverton
*Central Grove
*Freeport
*Westport
*Seabrook
Access routes
Highways and numbered routes that run through the district municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the municipal boundary:
[Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas Pages 76-77, 84-85]
*Highways
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*Trunk Routes
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*Collector Routes:
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*External Routes:
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See also
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List of municipalities in Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia is the seventh-most populous province in Canada with 969,383 residents as of the 2021 Census of Population, and the second-smallest province in land area at . Nova Scotia's 49 municipalities cover of the territory's land mass, a ...
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Digby, Nova Scotia (Municipal District)
Communities in Digby County, Nova Scotia
District municipalities in Nova Scotia